popular election
Means they just won an election by a landslide.
()in the US) By popular election.
Missouri
That is known as a recall election.
Barack Obama won the Popular Vote in the 2008 Presidential Election by about 8,500,000 votes.
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Run-Off
west Virginia
Lincoln won the election in 1860 without the majority of the popular vote. He won 40% of the popular vote, and 180 out of 303 electoral votes.
1824, Andrew Jackson lost to John Qunicy Adams. Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election.
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